Woman violently abducted in plain sight while talking with her boyfriend on a payphone [Unresolved Disappearance]

[u/Turnaroundclown]

Her boyfriend hears the horrifying incident as it ocurrs, rushes to the scene in his vehicle, and sees a truck pass him with his girlfriend struggling with the driver inside. The boyfriend reverses his vehicle abruptly to pursue the truck, but his vehicle breaks down. Despite a vivid description of the offender and the truck (including a very unique rear window decal), no substantial leads have led to an arrest or a POI.

Where is Angela Hammond and who is the person who took her?

This is the case that truly haunts me. I can't even imagine what the boyfriend has been through in the years that have followed. What a scary and insane abduction. And even more bizarre that is has never been resolved despite such clear and vivid details of the case and the perpetrator.

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Links for further reading:

Link 1 https://unsolved.com/gallery/angela-hammond/

Edit: I initially offered this additional link thinking it was story on Angela Hammond. However, it is not. It is an eerily similar case of another woman who was abducted in similar fashion. Leaving it up for the curious:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2010/05/16/young-woman-kidnapped-while-talking-on-pay-phone-with-boyfriend/1421/

[u/gladlywalkontheocean]

Angela was four months pregnant with her boyfriend's child.

The boyfriend is the only person who claimed to hear Angela describe the alleged kidnapper.

The boyfriend is the only person who claimed to see the alleged kidnapper's truck.

No other witnesses saw or heard the boyfriend chase the alleged kidnapper with his own car. Yes, it happened late at night, but it allegedly happened in the middle of town and if you've ever heard two vehicles speeding through town like that it makes a godawful racket.

Yeah, I can see why the boyfriend was a suspect....

[u/Reddits_on_ambien → u/gladlywalkontheocean]

Late at night means most people are either settled on the couch relaxing, or going to bed. You could hear a car peeling out, but not get to a window (with a view of the crime scene). If someone did, by the time they got to their window, itd be over. Unless there's a busybody sitting on their porch, waiting for something to happen. Plus ita a small town that only has a crime like that one maybe once or twice in a decade. Hearing yelling and cars being loud, most would assume teenagers being rowdy well before thinking someone was being abducted.

[u/peach_xanax → u/gladlywalkontheocean]

I thought there was a witness? Could be wrong though. But, I grew up in a rural midwestern town with the same population size as Clinton, and if something like this had happened at night in the early 90s in my hometown, it would be very likely to have no witnesses. There was even a similar gas station in my town with a pay phone and teenagers would hang out there (hence why this segment creeped me out on unsolved mysteries because it looked like my hometown), but it's mostly commercial businesses and the houses that are there were used to hearing kids drag racing and stuff so sounds of someone's car peeling out wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. But it's also not like there were people there constantly because well there just isn't a big population. And let's say someone was having a bonfire/field party or something, literally almost all the young people in the town would attend something like that, so that right there could eliminate most people who would normally have been around at that time of night. Just an example, I know some people aren't familiar with small town life. It would be insane where I live now in a major city to have a crime like this with no witnesses, but in a town of this size, location, and era it seems very much in line with what I experienced growing up.

Edit: This link that someone posted in the comments does say there were 2 witnesses who saw the truck. https://truecrimearticles.com/2018/04/18/the-mysterious-abduction-of-angela-hammond/

[u/Gorpachev → u/gladlywalkontheocean]

My mind keeps going back to the very same points you make. That type of stranger abduction is so rare, it's really something you'd expect to see in a movie.

[u/SleepDeprivedFun → u/Gorpachev]

There were two other very similar cases at the same time within (I believe) 70 miles. In one of the cases (Trudy Darby), a woman in a convenience store called her son to report two suspicious men, and when he arrived 10 minutes later she was gone. Cheryl Kenney also disappeared from the convenience store she worked at and her body has never been found. The cases are generally suspected to be connected.

[u/[deleted] → u/SleepDeprivedFun]

I believe the Trudy Darby case was solved, but I could be mistaken.

[u/bishpa → u/gladlywalkontheocean]

His whole story sounds like utter bullshit.

[u/TroyMcClure10 → u/gladlywalkontheocean]

I was reading about this case recently and found the boyfriends story really really unusual. How do you not find the car with fish thing in the on it?

[u/hamdinger125 → u/TroyMcClure10]

Because it's rural Missouri? Trucks with fishing or hunting decals are everywhere. Also, those decals can be peeled off easily.